Sentence examples for under Soviet command from inspiring English sources

They came allegedly 'to reach agreement', but in fact they brought us an ultimatum: The Vlora base must be put completely and solely under Soviet command, which was to be subordinate to the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty".

Lithuania's borders were still under Soviet command.

After this failed, his group managed to make its way to the Czerniaków suburb where it tried to contact the First Polish Army under Soviet command, stationed on the right bank of Vistula.

The Soviet command began conscripting Baltic natives as areas were brought under Soviet control.

He said that Mozambique was under Soviet control and that Soviet influence was growing in Zimbabwe.

The official date of the creation of the Soviet Bloc is May 14 , 1955 although Eastern Europe had de facto already come under Soviet control at the end of the Second World War.

As matters stand today, both the American liaison mission to the Soviet command in Potsdam and the Soviet mission in Frankfurt are under armed guard, their officers not allowed to move without a military escort.

You don't have to believe in a Soviet command economy to consider such measures.

During the Gorbachev era many of the basic elements of the Soviet command economy were weakened.

In 1971 Marshal Kulikov, then 50, became chief of staff of the Soviet armed forces, making him the third-ranking officer in the Soviet command structure.

Kimon Georgiev of Zveno became the new prime minister and sought an immediate armistice with the Soviet command.